PAGE 258 flower I have known from my infancy-their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy. It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and the happiest moments of our lives. I have seen foreign flowers in hothouses, of the most beautiful nature, but I do not care a straw for them. The simple flowers of our Spring are what I want to see again." INDEX OF FIRST LINES As late I rambled in the happy fields Bards of Passion and of Mirth Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Ever let the Fancy roam Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel PAGE 37 254 57 221 258 229 219 183 Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy Full many a dreary hour have I past. 257 28 Give me a golden pen, and let me lean Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Happy is England! I could be content In a drear-nighted December I stood tip-toe upon a little hill Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry Many the wonders I this day have seen My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Now Morning from her orient chamber came Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning O solitude! if I must with thee dwell O sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals. St. Agnes' Eve-Ah, bitter chill it was Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong The poetry of earth is never dead There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men Upon a time, before the faery broods What is more gentle than a wind in summer What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state 44 36 17 21 When I have fears that I may cease to be. 253 24 Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake 13 Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. BY THE SAME AUTHOR: THE VISIONS OF ENGLAND: SEVENTY LYRICS ON CRITICAL EVENTS AND MEN IN ENGLISH HISTORY. 8vo. 7s. 6d. LYRICAL POEMS; FOUR BOOKS: (1871). Extra Fcap. 8vo. 6s. ORIGINAL HYMNS; THIRD EDITION. 18mo. Is. 6d. POETRY EDITED BY THE SAME: THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF ENGLISH LYRICAL POETRY; SIXTY-FIRST THOUSAND. 18mo. 4s. 6d. THE CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF ENGLISH LYRICAL POETRY; WITH NOTES AND GLOSSARY. 18mo. 2s. 6d. Or in Two Parts, Is. each. SHAKESPEARE'S LYRICS: SONGS FROM THE PLAYS AND SONNETS: WITH NOTES. 18mo. 4s. 6d. SELECTION FROM HERRICK'S LYRICAL POETRY: WITH ESSAY AND NOTES. 18mo. 4s. 6d. MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. LORD TENNYSON'S WORKS. THE WORKS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. A New Collected Edition in Seven Volumes. Extra fcap. 8vo. 5s. each Volume. A limited number of copies are printed on best Hand-made Paper. Orders for this Edition will be taken for Sets only, at the rate of 10s. 6d. per Volume. BECKET: A Dramatic Poem. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Poet Laureate. Extra fcap. 8vo. [Just ready. THE CUP: AND THE FALCON. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Poet Laureate. Fcap. 8vo, 5s. THE WORKS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Poet Laureate. A New Collected Edition. Corrected throughout by the Author. With a New Portrait. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. THE WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY. In Prose and Verse. Edited by EDMUND GOSSE, Clark Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. With Portraits and Facsimile. In Four Volumes. Globe 8vo. 5s. each. POEMS. By CHARLES KINGSLEY. A New Collected Edition, with additions. In Two Volumes. (Eversley Edition.) Globe Svo, 10s. |